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    Chains of Command
    Chains of Command
    Chains of Command
    Audiobook11 hours

    Chains of Command

    Written by Marko Kloos

    Narrated by Luke Daniels

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    About this audiobook

    The assault on Earth was thwarted by the destruction of the aliens’ seed ship, but with Mars still under Lanky control, survivors work frantically to rebuild fighting capacity and shore up planetary defenses. Platoon sergeant Andrew Grayson must crash-course train new volunteers—all while dulling his searing memories of battle with alcohol and meds.

    Knowing Earth’s uneasy respite won’t last, the North American Commonwealth and its Sino-Russian allies hurtle toward two dangerous options: hit the Lanky forces on Mars or go after deserters who stole a fleet of invaluable warships critical to winning the war. Assigned to a small special ops recon mission to scout out the renegades’ stronghold on a distant moon, Grayson and his wife, dropship pilot Halley, again find themselves headed for the crucible of combat—and a shattering new campaign in the war for humanity’s future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 19, 2016
    ISBN9781511318426
    Chains of Command
    Author

    Marko Kloos

    Marko Kloos is the author of two series of military science fiction, the Palladium Wars and the Frontlines, and is a member of George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards consortium. Born in Germany and raised in and around the city of Münster, Marko was previously a soldier, bookseller, freight dockworker, and corporate IT administrator before deciding that he wasn’t cut out for anything except making stuff up for fun and profit. Marko writes primarily science fiction and fantasy—his first genre love ever since his youth, when he spent his allowance on German SF pulp serials. He likes bookstores, kind people, October in New England, fountain pens, and wristwatches. Marko resides at “Castle Frostbite” in New Hampshire with his wife, two children, and roving pack of voracious dachshunds. For more information, visit www.markokloos.com.

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    • 5/5
      Another great book in the series. Each book is greatly worth the time.
    • 4/5
      Excellent book, one the best of its genre.
      Characters are well developed and the plot has a surprising twist.
    • 5/5
      Great book, want to read the rest if them great book
    • 5/5
      Very good Book series the reader is amazing and the characters keep evolving very entertaining love it
    • 5/5
      Save for a few phrases used a bit to often, another excellent volume. Also, after four books in one verse I'm interested to see Kloos try something different.
    • 5/5
      Of the four books I have read so far, this one has the most space opera feel to it. Not saying that is a good or bad thing, just different in case you are expecting another military type Sci-Fi book. Because of this the plot does not move as fast in the beginning as the prior books, which is totally OK with me. I actually liked that there was a bit more development and a little less action. Though the second half of the book is all about action. I felt this was a solid installment in the series. I have already downloaded the next two books in the series. I'm obsessed. I hope in the next book(s) we get back to fighting the aliens because I have some theories on their species and I want to see if I am right.
    • 3/5
      this is the 4th novel in the series and it 's a pretty good read. I got tired of listening to the soldier tactics with weapons that are unfamiliar....it's just boring. A task force is created to go after weapons that were absconded by the previous earth leader and exist on the fringes of known space. With those absconded weapons, alien (Lankey's) can then be assaulted and driven off. Grayson puts together his team and off they go. Left on their own upon a terraformed planet, they fight other humans -- without a knowledge of the larger plan nor the logistics supplies to carry out their mission--their logisticians ought to be shot. The book ends and I'm pretty sure the next one will be a fight against aliens to save human kind.
    • 5/5
      This was good action packed story that continues the Frontlines series. The book takes place a year after the events of Angles of Attack. Earth is still a political dystopian mess. The leadership of the North American Commonwealth has bugged out for places unknown taking the best spaceships with them leaving Earth to defend herself. This is the story of how those ships were recovered and how a platoon of soldiers and special operators took control of the planet the traitors fled to. It is also the stories of the lies leadership tells to the lead in order to manipulate them to get their goals accomplished. It is the story of Andrew Grayson and his wife Haley as they navigate a path between duty and love, and their humanity versus the demands of commanding troops in battle and causing some to die. This novel can be read as just another good piece of military science fiction and on that level its fun. Kloos challenges his readers to think the about moral cost of command. The psychic consequences of having the power of life and death over an individual prisoner, a platoon of soldiers, or the overall command of a task force. He asks the reader ask what is the price of victory, is it worth lying to those under you for the greater good to save lives?
    • 3/5
      Well-written, and of very little interest to me. SF war against incomprehensible aliens, from a near-grunts-eye view - the protagonist starts as a staff sergeant and ends as a temporary lieutenant, but for all the bits about space and air fighters, it's primarily straight slogging in ground combat. At the beginning (of this book, which is #4 in a series I've read no others of), there is almost sort of hope they might be able to hold off the aliens, at least for a while. Then the focus changes and they're fighting humans instead - and while I don't like the sergeant/lieutenant much, I really detest the war hero. I think Sergeant Fallon has him dialed in early on. I read the whole book; I mostly feel triumph at having finished it (no particular pleasure from having read it), and I have zero interest in finding any others of the series. If you like blood-and-mud military SF with sneaky plans and unnecessary deaths, go ahead - it is well-written, you'll feel like you're in the middle of all that. Not my preferred scene. I got the eARC from NetGalley in return for an honest review.